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Bristol Dental School welcomes Minister of State for Care
28 October 2024
A Government minister visited the University of Bristol Dental School to witness the positive impact the £36 million clinical education facility is having on people living in the city.
- Bristol Dental School welcomes Minister of State for Care 28 October 2024 A Government minister visited the University of Bristol Dental School to witness the positive impact the £36 million clinical education facility is having on people living in the city.
- Dentist and researcher awarded prestigious international fellowship 8 April 2024 Dr Cher Farrugia from Bristol Dental School has been awarded an International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (IADR) STAR Network Academy Fellowship 2024.
- Research could help young people born with cleft lip and palate achieve best outcomes when moving to adult care 19 February 2024 Cleft lip and/or palate is a lifelong condition affecting one in 700 births. A new research programme, led by the University of Bristol and thanks to funding of nearly £2 million by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), will investigate how ethnicity, sex, socio-economic status, health literacy and geography affect outcomes for young adults born with a cleft. The findings will establish how to address this variation and ensure that all young adults have the same chance of achieving the best possible outcomes.
- Community Engagement activities this Autumn 11 January 2024 During the first term in our new building, the Dental School engaged with several local community initiatives.
- Bristol’s new Dental School officially opens 8 September 2023 The University of Bristol’s new, purpose-designed Dental School will be officially opened today [Friday 8 September].
- Care home visits by Year 4 dental students 20 March 2023 Our Year 4 BDS students, as part of their Social Accountability theme in the BDS21 Curriculum, visited care homes across the city to provide oral health guidance to carers.
- Visitors see progress at the new site 8 February 2023 A group of staff, students and invited visitors, had a tour of the new school site and saw construction progress on Wednesday 1 February.
- Highly Commended poster for cleft study 24 November 2022 Post CCST in Orthodontics, Paula Sinnott, received a highly commended accolade for her poster abstract at the British Orthodontic Conference.
- Bristol researcher awarded British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR) President's prize 1 November 2022 Dr Cher Farrugia, a dentist and researcher at the University of Bristol Dental School, has been awarded the prestigious British Society of Oral and Dental Research (BSODR) President's Prize for her research in translational microbiology.
- Meeting the needs of modern healthcare: Bristol Dental School is on the move 8 August 2022 There’s never been a more exciting time to be at Bristol Dental School. After more than 80 years training dental professionals at our current site, we are moving to a purpose-built space that will create a professional clinical training environment fit for the 21st century.